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Basically, they call themselves western, in relation to Asia being eastern to them.
What is it: it’s the west Europe culture and civilization coming from the medieval times to our recent days. With all its transformations.
Why is important? Well, there was a time when China discovered gunpowder, and Europeans copied that, then the Europeans started a 400 year long race about who can pew-pew the most and unfortunately this included ships with 10-140 guns each.
At some point they had the idea to use the ships to pew pew the entire planet and erase any other civilization. Almost managing to.
The era of “western pew pew everyone else” is coming to an end, we will be a more comprensive and culturally unified planet, with some room for every culture. But we can’t neglect how important the western culture is.
It’s basically the only culture that survived the “sea pew pew age”.
If you look the last 400-600 years, there was western culture and cultures silenced by westerns.
And, let’s say 500 to give a figure, 500 years of human development are quite important: the evolution of society, painting, buildings, literature, philosophy were all happening under the western culture monopoly for the last 500 years.
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